Last year Americans bought some $180 billion worth of furniture, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The bulk of that was spent with traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, though online e-commerce is taking a growing share of sales, somewhere around 15%. While retailers hope all those products find a happy home, returns are inevitable, especially with […]
Archive | May, 2022
After Sign-Up Boom, Retailers Fear A ‘Subscription Apocalypse’
Subscription services boomed during the pandemic by offering wary shoppers a convenient way to keep their cupboards stocked, or in the case of meal-kit subscriptions, the ability to recreate restaurant-quality meals at home while many stores and restaurants were closed. Curiosity was a factor too, as consumers had more time on their hands and, in […]
Confused About the Metaverse? Visit Zuckerberg’s Meta Store
The Meta Store has just opened on Meta’s (the company formerly known as Facebook) Burlingame campus. It is a living lab where people can experience the metaverse for themselves and Meta’s Reality Labs HQ programmers and developers can learn from customers.“Once people experience the technology, they can gain a better appreciation for it,” said Martin […]
Power of Paradox Brands
Paradoxes are both familiar and common to the human condition. They are brain teasers that reveal faults in our senses and errors in human logic. Authors and poets delight in paradoxes because they stop the reader in their tracks to ponder the apparent contradictions. Like the familiar phrase, “Less is more,” or when Shakespeare’s Hamlet […]
Talking HENRYs with Joanne Wilson, a.k.a. @GothamGal
Gotham Gal, a.k.a. Joanne Wilson, asked me about HENRYs – High Earners Not Rich Yet – and I obliged. Hear our far-ranging discussion on my career path to the luxury market and the discovery of the HENRYs, women consumers, online shopping, supply chain and retail.Watch Now